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Autism Bedfordshire

Autism Bedfordshire is a registered charity (number 1100722) based in Bedfordshire, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by Lauraine Montgomery. Latest income £2.5m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.5m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 1 more
Where
Central Bedfordshire, Luton, Bedford, Cambridgeshire and more
Website
www.autismbedfordshire.net (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Autism Bedfordshire
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.5m£2.0m
  • 2024£2.3m£2.1m
  • 2023£2.1m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.1m
  • 2021£842k£746k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 61% · Government grants 10%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH AN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER (AND RELATED CONDITIONS) AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

Grants received

62 grants · £3,109,937 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

8.5y median 8y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 6Education/training 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 5Retail and trade 2Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.5m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

8.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.8 in 2021

130 from 62 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
71%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1100722
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9 JANUARY 2003 as amended on 25 Nov 2019
Companies House
Company number 04632497 · Active
Contact on the register
01234214871 · enquiries@autismbeds.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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